a man planning julian a sundress legal breakout from the ecuadorian embassy in london speaks out on the whistleblowers plight exclusively to our. house surgeon needs more aleksey greek lawmakers a balk at possible the disabled and low income pensioners top foreign creditors a reject athens planned savings as to date. the new u.n. peace envoy begins a syrian mission which was greeted sesar got here none fail to finish a fresh hike in fighting and terrorist activity. that washington views the middle east on sales with the region now the biggest buyer of american weapons

which are flooded then they just surrounding syria. he along with us here from moscow this is our tea with me to say first he's pursued dictators shut down drug trafficking cut tells and even expose entire terrorist cells and now he's representing joining us on renowned lawyer. on has been speaking to our g. about where the whistleblowers future might take him there for its shares with us of some of what goes on had to say. he reveals a little bit about this ongoing battle for justice to julian assange and of course the wiki leaks founder remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy here in london in knightsbridge and no real end in sight at the moment for this. standoff. remains

very very firm that word julian assange is to be extradited that would put his human rights a very real risk at the same time the u.k. has said they're not going to grant julian assange free passage and that if he sets foot outside the ecuadorian embassy he could be arrested for breaching his bail conditions so just where does that leave him well in the interview with r.t. both those are garceau on a song his lawyer said that they're going to continue to fight what he termed a terrible injustice and i'm glad that it's clear that to julian assange has political asylum because he was facing terrible injustice and exercised his fundamental rights and we think that this wrong to needs to be defended at this point we consider it prevalent and a legal solution is possible if both the u.k. and it could all go to the international court of justice ruling that bound to obey now remember julian assange says never being charged he's wanted for questioning in

sweden over rape and sexual assault allegations one of the biggest criticisms leveled good in a song is that his bid for asylum in ecuador granting him asylum is very much just trying to evade justice now his lawyer tells us that is more than ready to go there he is more than ready to face the questioning as long as he's been given a guarantee that once he was in sweden he'd face the decision to the u.s. and they have never received those guarantees you saw julian assange has told swedish prosecutors that he's ready to cooperate and ready to be questioned to submit himself to the procedures but only if he's guaranteed that it would not lead to a more complicated case in which is right to freedom of speech and information would be for. now as we said julian assange and his legal team have always maintained that there's a very real fear here that well he'd be extradited to sweden that he could face a further extradition to the u.s. where some of the quine's that he could potentially be accused of espionage or is

working with wiki leaks that carries the death penalty in the u.s. a very serious concerns that his lawyer makes in the interview you know i do not think mr saunders a spy all he did was exercise his right to freedom of information he received and shared it but much more surprised that there's been no investigation into the glaring crimes documented in those leaked reports featuring u.s. interference with issues that have absolutely no relation to either national security or the safety of american citizens or different from a few both sides of course very very eager to find some form of resolution but just when and how this will come remains extremely uncertain indeed as louis told r.t. there is no time limit to resolve this situation certainly looks like this one could be set to run and run but you can catch the full interview with julian assange his lawyer but also exclusively on r.t. tomorrow. still to come in a few minutes kosovo claims

a new claim long service with the way republic celebrates the closure of a forum a supervisory this is a realization of also mentally but with thousands of the e.u. and nato forces still on its territory then national presence is far from over. also from the pentagon drew the pyramids we find out what's bringing a major contractors and a hold of us corporate executives to cairo. here in peace and boy rahimi has started his syria mission kicking off with talks with egyptian and arab league leaders his predecessor and former u.n. chief kofi annan quit because of divisions at the security council on end in the deadly bloodshed but here is mission isn't likely to be any easier syria's largest city aleppo is witnessing escalating fighting as rebels intensify the attempts to take control as it is also being rocked by

a car bomb killed at least thirty civilians and injured forty others a few hours earlier a jordanian militant leader who's linked to al qaida threatened to launch deadly a text to oust of president assad. from the syrian social club ex-pat group things of the country has become fertile soil for terrorists. it has turned into a more regional wider conflict krapp's even has some sort of an international war on syrian soil the person the would use for such a demonstration in the seventh made in front of the eleven. for muslim extremists outside the syrian between want and shouting very clearly islam only. doesn't need any explanation does it so it is not surprising what we see or hearing that they are jihadists who are coming into syria because the western powers have a long time seen this conflict as the same model or the same you know viewing

point just like this we have to understand three decades ago. the problem we're having basically is that took so long to acknowledge that you had used. you know element after i think it was too late so far the u.s. has limited itself to calling for arming syrian rebels without taking any of the shore action it's made no promises about not sending weapons to a neighboring state there is a report has so in that the middle east is a frequent and favorite wind of the american arms trade artie's the guy and major if you can take a look at whether pearlers policy might lead. the world may be terrified of a potential war with iran but for arms producers tensions fear is good business so it is for the united states according to a recent congressional research service report within just one year the u.s. has tripled its arms sales tripled here's how it looks in numbers just around

twenty billion dollars in two thousand and ten and over sixty billion dollars in two thousand and eleven sixty six point three billion dollars to be exact according to this report as far as the u.s. share on the global market is almost eighty percent of all worlds arm sales have to mention this congressional service research that arrived the numbers from unclassified arms sales reports now who provided the spike in sales that is mostly the persian gulf states half of what the u.s. sold last year went to saudi arabia eighty four advanced and fifteen fighters a variety of ammunition missiles in the just it support dozens of attack helicopters but why this spike looking at the graphics one might thing something is brewing here apparently many experts think the same with spoke with daryl kimball of the arms control association here's what he said we often see

conflict emerge after a group of states in a particular region with tensions have bought or built weapons so this does not necessarily ensure security but clearly the insecurities of the region the doubts about maintaining peace between states in that region are driving these wealthy countries in the middle east to buy u.s. weapons. there is already a war going on in the region the civil war in syria saudi arabia and other gulf states are actively involved in the war there funneling weapons to the rebels in the strive to bring down assad iran's long time ally in the region many experts talk about syria as a stepping stone to iran in a sense the war on iran has already started the spiking arms sales could be a graphic sign of it is hard to claim that arms sales is the end game for the us

although he does profit handsomely from the sales in february nine hundred forty five president roosevelt at a meeting in egypt with our little. bin souled the founder of modern saudi arabia pledged to defend the kingdom in exchange for a steady flow of oil up to this day u.s. actions in the region have been consistent with that goal the us has armed the gulf states to the teeth turning a blind eye to widespread human rights violations like of democracy terrorists turning a blind eye to a lot of things the question is whether the world is ready for another devastating war in the region i'm going to check on our. coming up for you later on in the program coping with a rare look at the facts in economic and political uncertainty has on regulate gyptian some of whom are forced to go abroad in search of work.

a rough start for greece in its quest for more bailout money with its creditors rejecting about two billion euros worth of plan cuts saying they're not clearly enough defined on top of that there's infighting within the government itself over a way to make savings at the root of that will sterrett in measures that would target low income pensioners and people with disabilities something that not even a dental sturges supporters that make up the government could handle nevertheless only go see asians or continue with officials promising to cut elsewhere and that is why the countries you and i met creditors and peter all of our reports people are under no illusion those cuts any more bearable. greek prime minister antonis samaras isn't sugar coating his message after. there is no other way. it would seem that the greek public don't agree with the pm

. this weekend saw large demonstrations in the country's major cities and when you look around those cities you can see the effects of the crisis on every corner this was once thessaloniki busiest market now like a ghost town. costus has run this coffee shop since the one nine hundred seventy s. he lays the blame for the current troubles on a political class who are looking out the greek interests if the politicians don't care about the people they care more about what germany's done what the greek people need big people on the street and invariably the conversation will turn to talk of tax as pensions and wages have been slashed prices and taxes have soared when the cuts from from. and in the same time of increase taxes it's very very difficult to pay some bills for the.

water from the photo with unemployment at just under twenty five percent and fears that it's just a matter of time before it passes the thirty percent mark people take where they can find it constantine works in a factory that produces industrial lubricants a university graduate with degrees in nanotechnologies and biology this isn't the work he was trained for that counts himself lucky to have it. share situation is bad but this work allows me to provide for my family and i enjoy. as unhappy as the vast majority of greeks are with the current situation if the country is to remain in the euro zone an extra eleven point five billion will have to be cut from greece's deficit to make sure it receives e.u. bailout money that means more pain ahead for the greek taxpayer but despite their m. . t. towards the morrises plans even the harshest critics of the government fear that

a return to the drachma would open a pandora's box of fresh financial woes but here is the bottom line is we must stay in the euro no doubt we have to stay he is a simple as that going back to the old currency would be futile. r.t. there's a lot to keep greece. and as the european debt crisis rages on there are fewer people willing to bear responsibility for sparking it and the asia pacific summit in russia has fought used over the weekend r. g.'s peter lavelle brought together leading experts are due to discuss what's wrong with capitalism and how to fix it he brings here to part discussion here on r.t. today. obviously. the definition. of question and it's ready to go with the market. capitalism without bankruptcy is like

christianity without. my serbia's breakaway region of kosovo is shutting down and international supervisory body it's being heralded as a landmark achievement of so venti a political analyst alexander poverty believes it's just the tip of the iceberg of foreign involvement. international korean office protocol. that's just the early riser housebreaker video so-called international presence there was get out of here in my view not in the night and i'm to go to make a long i'm going to follow no rules for how to remanding you out or peace keeping mission or playing or troops to eat. their words

about to read also on the radio. also all continue their heloc or enjoy your living in the korean war for advisors including of the who are who aren't they lord with iraq are you going to creating i don't know if they're lying all over the ocean they're going to be you know this is really just a way out of the energy through out of the crowd or increase pressure on all of the favorite thing in the world which i don't write my because we're going to. write there's more news from other region that are too dot com including the disturbing black market trade in human organs starting a new revelations from said which claimed eight possible and management has testified to taking plods in publishing body parts from kidnapped people. also online shopping modes british undercover agents finding huge bash shell fake

cigarettes with dead flies and as best as being among the these revolting ingredients you can find all of that on our web site. you tube. watching archie good to have you with us now the heavyweights of america's corporate world in egypt forging business ties damage a dream last year's revolution is the largest u.s. trade delegation abijah. travel to the arab world the push for new markets comes as washington sweetens the deal with a pledge of one hundred billion dollars in debt relief for cairo egypt the new muslim brotherhood leaders keeping the country's foreign policy largely in line with that of the u.s. a sympathy for syria uprising and support reigns ruling family journalist or ramsey . written extensively about developments in the arab world says the american trip

to egypt has an agenda that stretches beyond the economy. is organized by the u.s. government although they are insisting the political aspect is a minor aspect of this move is not far removed from the i.m.f. negotiations with egypt so what egypt is trying to get about four point eight billion dollars is not far removed from what the qataris and the saudis and the turks frankly have been doing which is offering all these supposedly free money to egypt to billions of dollars worth of investments billions of dollars that are actually going to pay the salaries of ordinary egyptians all of this is tying the hands of the egyptian government even surely morsi and his government no matter how well intended views he's going to find himself in a situation where it's going to become extremely difficult to escape all these strings that are controlling him and controlling his policies and controlling his government. and while the big corporations cozy up to cairo as new leaders they

gyptian people are realizing they can't afford to wait for the promise changes thousands are fleeing the uncertainty at home to head abroad just they can make ends meet as policy explains. their country may be in danger of crumbling but here they are rebuilding someone else's hundreds of thousands of egyptians are putting bricks to mortar for their neighbors future every few weeks another building goes up in a month with a toil nearly a quarter of a million egyptians are scattered throughout the kingdom next door but many shouldn't be here at all in the chaos and disappointment that followed egypt's revolution thousands of egyptians fade here to jordan with no visa and little more than the clothes on their back while it might still be too soon to say what will be the long term effects of the revolution no one here is in a hurry to return back home just like muhammad he sold his wife's jewelry and borrowed neighbors' money to pay for nearly one thousand american dollar work

permit but it's long since expired now he's working on borrowed time the bottom line i can't afford to buy another work permit i left egypt because i want to eat egyptian society is very divided and all of us here are printed on lower class we're not searching to be rich we just want food for families it's jordan's worst kept secret more than one hundred thousand desperate illegal egyptians lining the pockets of jordanian businessmen who exploit loopholes in the law has been is that there are a lot of people in egypt playing with the papers they promise the best permission but then when the labor is come here they don't know what the permission is for exactly and who is even their boss it's corruption between from their gyptian side the laborers themselves the jordanian government because it gets a lot of mine from fighting with people and the business owners their own world surprisingly jordan's labor ministry does not deny this but insists it is cracking

down trying to organize on the time what to do the kind of some of them. on the understanding that tourists and this is legal but when they when. here in the country they tried to fight orcs and jobs and they kept looking for jobs all the time without in vain al-sayed has been working here for nearly two years he's got a degree in social work but the only employment he can find is to wait tables in a man his salary pays his rent the race to send home for his wife and children there's nothing left for a new visa. every six to seven months the police make a check during this time i stay at home and isolate myself for about ten days to two weeks the police are starting to get more strict but i'm not thinking about going back to egypt for now because the security situation there is not stable whatever hardships they face here in jordan their families back home depend on if

we dollar center back across the border for now the risks far outweigh returning to a country where the prospects of work all stability or even gloomier policy r.t. amman jordan. that's what else is happening around the world aluminum production workers have gathered in their hundreds in rome to produce the closing of a plant in sardinia call a facility is future is being discussed at a meeting at the economic development ministry a decision was taken in march to close the plant down unless a bio could be found and this is still hasn't happened promises that the plan would still be reopened to have done nothing to quell the anger of the labor union members. of the palestinian administration has seen its biggest public protest in the history demonstrators are spilled onto the streets a reading again is rising living costs in the west bank schools that stayed closed for the day as protesters the halted traffic with burning tires smashed windows and

clashed with police and wrestlers several days of going to demonstrations. the u.s. has formally transferred control of a background prison to afghan as were g.'s the facility holds more than three thousand taliban insurgents and suspected terrorists analysts believe the handover is largely symbolic as the fate of inmates remain unclear looting fifty foreigners and not covered by the agreement the u.s. military still wants to run a section of the jail which has been labeled afghanistan one time a prisoner abuse and torture reported. back room prison or part of me this way back room prison lies within one of the largest the bases of the nato led forces in afghanistan later today we reveal the obscure danger that exists for the soldiers themselves don't miss it at five thirty pm

g.m.t. . dear mom i'm sorry that i had to do this i've been in so much pain in the past year that i can't take it anymore the stomach and chest pains have been getting worse and no doctor has been able to help me please know that i'll finally be at peace with no more pain i wish i could have had a wife with that was a bit well he's pictured her being my wife and mother to my kids i love you all see you all in heaven when your time comes i'm going to meet jesus christ. thousands of u.s. troops in iraq received one of these drugs a drug called lariam and it may have prevented many soldiers from getting sick the question tonight is whether or not soldiers were adequately warned about its rare side effects serious life changing side effects. time to close over to the business desk you know within the tulsa now does

a wall street sort of trading this hour how did it open well yes socrates open below the line as of course we expected from the way u.s. futures were trading and that's not surprising considering the u.s. stocks hit a multi-year high last week on specular expectations of more stimulus and we'll see a similar picture over in a europe it's trading mixed this hour trading at traders awaiting for the chooks heat of them to figure out the strategy wednesday's germany's constitutional court will rule on the legality of the eurozone permanent rescue fund and the u.s. fed reserve is scheduled to meet on thursday and of course investors are widely expecting more easing otherwise known as that money printing onto the currency markets and what we're seeing there is that a euro is trading a little word to the dollar the euro the ruble is the shedding value to that currency basket which is why it's surprising considering that crude was actually

trading. above the line move of the day this hour though it has slipped into the bread in fact it was near the highs for the week earlier in the day that's amid speculation that countries like china and the united states will add this stimulus to counteract the slowdown that threatens fuel demand here in russia equities in the last hour of trade are seeing a very optimistic picture but independent gas producer and noble task is under pressure and that's on the news that gazprom will stop buying from independent producers a bit more on the ballot reportedly own lukoil managed to convince the gas monopoly to alter the purchasing contract between the two companies according to better mysti daily gazprom is trying to cut down on buying from independents in light of falling demand however independent firms will still be able to use council prongs

why applying to sell to their subsidiaries. the international business elites were gathered in lot of a so-called over the weekend for the asia pacific economic cooperation summit it became quite clear early on that russia now turns its attention east when it comes to making deals to me to remember that the business side of the about. the apec summit here and talk symbolizes the wind of change not just for russia but for the global economy void yet another crisis of growth are needed and the need it quickly china's outgoing president hu jintao says he's very much concerned with notable downside risks to a slowing economy this is coupled with the fact that you are still in a deep debt crisis over russia's naturally turning to asia boosting trade in the pacific rim to twenty one percent overall but the e.u. remains its main trade partner accounting for fifty one percent so present wants to

very much of lloyd trade was. concerned with the recent investigation into gas dominance in eastern europe and. i think the main reason for this investigation is the difficult economic situation in the euro zone you're mainly talking about eastern european countries and the problem is that back in the days when they joined the european union the e.u. took liabilities to subsidize those economies but apparently someone in the european commission decided that we must assume part of this burden i mean that europe wants to maintain its political influence and things that we should pay a little to assist this but that is not a constructive approach. for russia the apec summit is not so much about the business deals it's about building bridges. on the sidelines of the forum president vladimir putin held negotiations with new zealand them to form free trade zones and although it may sound surprising as they're not exactly the most significant trade partners from moscow china has also done the same thing because it sets

a precedent that deals and now is the right time because russia is a fresh member pledges to boost transparency cut tariffs and fight protectionism. and also latest from the business desk see you back here in fifty minutes thanks for that out of date to more from me of course in an hour rides a recap of our top stories coming right up stay with us.